Netflix will discover Silicon Valley in its subsequent drama collection.
The streamer gained a bidding warfare by giving a straight-to-series order to Thumblite, set within the epicenter of the tech trade. The collection comes from The Morning Present and Pachinko producer Media Res and creator Scott Z. Burns (The Report, Apple TV+’s Extrapolations); NYU advertising professor and podcaster Scott Galloway is an government producer. Rosamund Pike (The Wheel of Time, Saltburn) will star and government produce.
Netflix describes Thumblite as “a company thriller set in Silicon Valley, that examines the schemes, rivalries, visions and obsessions of the ability brokers and their underlings as they vie for management of essentially the most highly effective trade the world has ever recognized.” Particulars on Pike’s position within the present are being stored quiet for now.
The collection is one in every of a few Silicon Valley-set reveals within the works. CBS can also be growing a authorized drama referred to as Cupertino from Evil and The Good Battle creators Robert and Michelle King.
Burns will function showrunner on the collection. His writing credit additionally embody function movies The Informant!, Contagion and The Laundromat, and he directed episodes of Showtime’s The Loudest Voice and Californication along with Extrapolations, Apple’s anthology about local weather change.
The present marks the primary involvement in a scripted present for Galloway, who co-hosts the Pivot podcast with tech journalist Kara Swisher and has written a e-book about tech giants Apple, Amazon, Fb and Google.
Burns, Galloway and Pike government produce, alongside Greg Jacobs and Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer for Media Res.
Pike is repped by CAA, United Brokers within the U.Ok., Magnolia Leisure and Prosper PR. Burns is with UTA and Jackoway Austen.